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4.5.

Reconocimientos internacionales
En septiembre de 2016 Iberarchivos-Programa ADAI ha sido reconocido y galardo-
nado con el Premio Jikji Programa Memoria del Mundo de la UNESCO que se concede
a aquellas entidades o iniciativas que han contribuido de manera significativa a la
conservación y accesibilidad del patrimonio documental mundial.

En septiembre de 2017, Iberarchivos-Programa ADAI ha sido invitado a participar en
la conferencia internacional «The Best in Heritage» («Lo mejor en patrimonio»), don-
de se le ha reconocido como uno de los programas más influyentes en cuanto a la
conservación del patrimonio a escala mundial.
Igualmente, Iberarchivos estará presente en la próxima Conferencia del Consejo In-
ternacional de Archivos (ICA) y de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Archivos (ALA),
que se celebrará en Ciudad de México en noviembre de 2017, seleccionado como una
de las mejores prácticas profesionales de cooperación archivística internacional.

A lo largo de sus veinte años de existencia, Iberarchivos ha demostrado que la coo-
peración es un camino eficaz para fomentar conservación de nuestro patrimonio co-
mún e impulsar el acceso de la ciudadanía iberoamericana a los archivos.





























48 Resultados / Iberarchivos-Programa ADAI

Argentina
Área de Investigación y Documentación Histórica Parque de España. Proyecto 1999/013: «Microfilmación de
fondos documentales del cabildo de Santa Fe, siglo XVII»

















20 años de cooperación archivística iberoamericana 49



Desde 1998 han participado
en Iberarchivos-Programa ADAI:
Argentina / Bolivia / Brasil / Chile / Colombia / Costa Rica
Cuba / Ecuador / El Salvador / España / Filipinas
México / Panamá / Paraguay / Perú / Portugal
Puerto Rico / República Dominicana / Uruguay





www.iberarchivos.org







































Organización Ganadores de la 6ta edición
de las Naciones Unidas del Premio de la UNESCO/Jikji
para la Educación, Memoria del Mundo
la Ciencia y la Cultura

Iberarchivos


ADAI Programme






Twenty years of Ibero-American
archival cooperation

Iberarchivos

ADAI Programme




Twenty years of Ibero-American
archival cooperation










































Programa de cooperación de: Con el apoyo de:


Organización Ganadores de la 6ta edición
de las Naciones Unidas del Premio de la UNESCO/Jikji
para la Educación, Memoria del Mundo
la Ciencia y la Cultura

Catálogo de publicaciones del Ministerio:
www.mecd.gob.es
Catálogo general de publicaciones oficiales:
publicacionesoficiales. boe.es

Edición 2017







Elaborado por:
Cristina Díaz Martínez
Colaboración:
Teresa Engenios Martín
María Jesús Matilla Rodríguez
Miguel Ángel Bermejo Alonso

Traducciones:
Direção-Geral do Livro, dos Arquivos e das Bibliotecas (portugués)
Leida J. Santiago Rodríguez. Archivo General de Puerto Rico (inglés)

Junio-septiembre 2017












MiniSTERio DE EDuCACión, CuLTuRA
y DEPoRTE
Editan:
© iberarchivos-Programa ADAi
© SECRETARÍA GEnERAL TÉCniCA
Subdirección General
de Documentación y Publicaciones
© De los textos e imágenes: sus autores

niPo: 030-17-091-6
Depósito legal: M-16596-2017

Imprime: Grafilia, S. L.

Contents











1. Introduction 4

1.1. About Iberarchivos- ADAI Programme 6
1.2. A Brief History of Iberarchivos 8

1.3. Legal Framework 10


2. Country members 12



3. Structure and operation 16

3.1. Organization 18

3.2. Archival projects 20


4. Achievements 24

4.1. Quantified results 26

4.2. Projects of comprehensive archival processing 36

4.3. Projects that support the non-discriminatory
disadvantaged population 38

4.3.1. Multicultural Perspective Projects 40

4.3.2. Gender Perspective Projects 42
4.3.3. Human Rights Projects 44

4.4. Supranational projects 46

4.5. International Acknowledgments 48

1 .




Introduction

Uruguay
Archivo General de la Universidad de la República (University of the Republic General Archive). Project 2010/239:
“Preventive conservation and archival description of the cinematographic films of the fond of the Film Institute from the
University of the Republic General Archive” .











Twenty years of Ibero-American archival cooperation 5

1.1.

About Iberarchivos - ADAI Programme
Iberarchivos - ADAI Programme (Programme for the Development of Ibero-Ameri-
can Archives) is an intergovernmental cooperation and integration programme of
Ibero-American countries, articulate and endorsed by the Ibero-American Summit
of Heads of State and Government for the promotion of access, organization, des-
cription, conservation and dissemination of documentary heritage. At present the
Programme is the cornerstone for the Ibero-American archival cooperation and
contributes decisively to consolidate the Ibero-American cultural space of the Ibe-
ro-American General Secretariat (Spanish acronym: SEGIB).

Iberarchivos strives to ensure access to archives by citizens and their development
throughout the region. The Programme promotes solidarity binds amongst the insti-
tutions in charge of caring for cultural heritage, strengthens its professional capabi-
lities and thrusts improvement policies of the Ibero-American archives, from natio-
nal archives to municipal archives, archives from institutions focus on safeguarding
human rights, woman rights or indigenous peoples and Afro descendant’s rights,
amongst others.































6 Introduction / Iberarchivos-ADAI Programme

Brazil
Associação dos Amigos do Centro de Cultura de Belo Horizonte (AMICULT) (Belo Horizonte Association of Friends of the
Culture Center). Project 2014-007: “Conservation and access to the cinematographic posters collection, CRAV”.


Twenty years of Ibero-American archival cooperation 7

1.2.

A Brief History of Iberarchivos
After twenty years of existence, Iberarchivos - ADAI Programme is one of the oldest
Ibero-American programmes of the Ibero-American cooperation. The Programme
began in the VII Ibero-American Summit on Margarita Island in 1997, which immedia-
tely received the support of several countries and the Latin-American Archives As-
sociation (ALA). In the VIII Summit that took place in Oporto (Portugal) in 1998, the
Programme received a final approval, being raised to Ibero-American Programme
category and was named as Apoyo al Desarrollo de Archivos Iberoamericanos ADAI
(Advocacy for the Development of Ibero- American Archives).

Iberarchivos - ADAI Programme was the new name given in the XII Meeting of the ADAI
Intergovernmental Committee in Madrid on February 2010.








































8 Introduction / Iberarchivos-ADAI Programme

Peru
Centro de Estudios Históricos Militares del Perú (Center for Historical Military Studies). Project 2008/198: “Inventory and
conservation of the War & Marine Ministry documents collection 1821-1919. Document digitalization corresponding to the
Independence Process, 1821-1919)” (1st phase).











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1.3.

Legal Framework
Iberarchivos - ADAI Programme is a cultural programme of the Ibero-American cultu-
ral space under the SEGIB (Ibero-American General Secretariat), which guarantees
the coordination and follow up of the programmes approved in the Summits.

Its legal and institutional framework of reference is the The Bariloche agreement,
approved in the V Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government in
1995 and the programmes operative manual, Initiatives and Projects attached to
the Ibero-American Cooperation approved in the Cartagena de Indias (2016) XXV
Ibero-American Summit. At the same time, Iberarchivos – ADAI Programme Working
Regulations were approved in the XVII meeting of the Intergovernmental Council, in
Quito on June 2015.








































10 Introduction / Iberarchivos-ADAI Programme

Portugal
Direção Geral do Livro, dos Arquivos e das Bibliotecas (General Direction of the Book, Archives and Libraries).
Arquivo Distrital do Porto (Porto District Archive). Project 2014/070: “Testimonies of emigration between the north of
Portugal and Brazil - conclusion”.







Twenty years of Ibero-American archival cooperation 11

2 .




Country members

Cuba
Archivo Histórico Provincial de Ciego de
Ávila (Provincial Historical Archive of Ciego
de Ávila) “Brigadier José Gómez Cardoso”.
Project 2012/061: “Provincial Historical
Archive Brigadier José A. Gómez Cardoso,
fonds and collections digitization”.






















Mexico
Archivo Vicente Kramsky ( Vicente Kramsky
Archive). Project 2010/173: “Digitization and
cataloging of the Indian culture photographic
archive in Altos de Chiapas: Vicente Kramsky’s
gaze 1950-1970”.



























Twenty years of Ibero-American archival cooperation 13

The adhesion of the National Archival Authorities to Iberarchivos International
Programme is possible by an application to SEGIB through the national respon-
sible for cooperation and the annual fee which constitutes a multilateral financial
fund. Also, contributions from the Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional
para el Desarrollo (AECID) (Spanish Agency for International Development Coo-
peration) has been decisive during these years as financial support. The country
members in 2017 are:




ARGENTINA SPAIN PERU
Archivo General Subdirección General de los Archivos Archivo General
www.mininterior.gov.ar/agn/agn.php Estatales www.agn.gob.pe
www.mecd.gob.es/cultura-mecd/
BRAZIL areas-cultura/archivos.html PORTUGAL
Arquivo Nacional do Brasil Direção-Geral do Livro, dos Arquivos
www.arquivonacional.gov.br PHILIPPINES e das Bibliotecas.
National Archives of the Philippines Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo
CHILE www.nationalarchives.gov.ph www.dglab.gov.pt/area-arquivos
Archivo Nacional
www.archivonacional.cl MEXICO PUERTO RICO
Archivo General Archivo General
COLOMBIA www.agn.gob.mx www.icp.gobierno.pr/programas/
Archivo General archivo-general-de-puerto-rico
www.archivogeneral.gov.co PANAMA
Archivo Nacional de Panamá DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
COSTA RICA www.archivonacional.gob.pa Archivo General
Archivo Nacional de Costa Rica www.agn.gov.do
www.archivonacional.go.cr PARAGUAY
Archivo Nacional de Asunción URUGUAY
CUBA www.archivonacionaldeasuncion.org Archivo General
Archivo Nacional de la República www.agn.gub.uy
de Cuba
www.arnac.cu






14 Country members / Iberarchivos-ADAI Programme

Puerto Rico
Sistema Universitario Ana G. Méndez, Inc.
haciendo negocio como Universidad del
Turabo (Ana G. Méndez University System).
Project 2013/097: “Inventory and organization
Archivo Walter Murray Chiesa de folklore y
artesanía” (1st phase).

























































Twenty years of Ibero-American archival cooperation 15

3 .


Structure


and operation

Uruguay
Centro de Documentación, Investigación y Difusión de las Artes Escénicas. Teatro Solís. Intendencia de Montevideo.
(Documentation, Research and Dissemination Center of the Performing Arts. Solis Theater. Montevideo Intendance).
Project 2009/196: “Digitalization of the sketches of costumes of the Solis Theater. Image detail: Costume sketches of the
work La Celestina.)”

















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3.1.

Organization
The Intergovernmental Committee is the leader of the Programme. Its members
meet once a year, and is represented by the national archival authorities belonging to
the acceding countries. The Committee defines the politic and strategic lines of the
Programme, is also responsible for the Annual Operative Plan approval, the financial
resources distribution and the resolution of grants to archival projects. The actual
Committee President is Cuba’s National Archive Director.

The Executive Committee which has three members of the Intergovernmental Com-
mittee oversees the Programme to facilitate the proper operation. For 2017, the Di-
rectors of the National Archives are from Chile, Spain & Dominican Republic.
The Technical Unit is executive responsible for the Programme. It operates under
Subdirección General de los Archivos Estatales, Ministerio Educación Cultura y De-
porte. (General Subdirectorate of State Archives. Spanish Ministry for Education,
Culture and Sports); its coordination is in charge of the International Cooperation
Service Chief.
































18 Structure and operation / Iberarchivos-ADAI Programme

Ecuador
17th Iberarchivos - ADAI Programme
Intergovernmental Counsel meeting - Quito
(Ecuador), June 27-29, 2015.


















Spain
ADAI Projects files at the Technical Unit
Headquarters. Subdirección General de los
Archivos Estatales (General Subdirectorate of
State Archives. Spain).



































Twenty years of Ibero-American archival cooperation 19

3.2.

Archival projects
Iberarchivos Intergovernmental Committee endorses an Annual Operative Plan with
Managing for Development Results principles. Among others, the call for grants for
archival projects pass every year as a priority action intended for:

• The preservation and dissemination of the Ibero-American Documentary Heritage.

• Training and technical assistance in archivistic field.
In order to receive a grant for archival projects, the Archives and other archival ins-
titutions must have its corporate headquarter located in a member country with full
rights in the Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government, although
exceptions can be made to Archives out of the programme geographical area.









































20 Structure and operation / Iberarchivos-ADAI Programme

Dominican Republic
Archivo Histórico del Arzobispado de Santo Domingo (Santo Domingo Archbishopric Historical Archive).
Project 2010/234: “Rescue, restoration and conservation of XVI through XIX century parish books.” (1st phase).












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After the Technical Unit Secretary’s office receives the application, the Secretariat
of the Technical Unit and representatives of the Intergovernmental Committee per-
forms an evaluation of the projects through a consensus of assessment agreed by all
the countries.

In its annual meetings, the Intergovernmental Committee agree to issue the grants to
the best projects through a set of rules of competition ensuring an equitable distri-
bution of the grants fund between the countries adhering to the Programme.

During the last years, the priority guidelines on issuing grants are:

• Citizens access to archives.
• Improvement in organization, description, conservation and dissemination of the
documentary fonds.

• Impulse of archives on indigenous and Afro-descendant peoples.
• Impulse of archives on Women’s rights.

• Promotion of projects of shared memory of the Ibero-American peoples.

• Promotion of the iberian archival tradition.
• Professional response to Natural disasters and climate phenomena.

• Treatment of Scientific archives.

• Development of joint projects in collaboration with other Ibero-American
Cooperation Programmes.





















22 Structure and operation / Iberarchivos-ADAI Programme

Paraguay
Secretaría Nacional de Cultura. Archivo Nacional de Asunción. Paraguay (National Secretariat of Culture. Asunción National
Archive). Project 2015/074: “A 100 volume document description belonging to Archivo Nacional de Paraguay New Binding
Section, as of international archival description regulation ISAD (G), and internet database publishing, including description
and digital images of the documents”.















Twenty years of Ibero-American archival cooperation 23

4 .


Achievements

Puerto Rico
Centro Cultural de la Comunidad (Comunity Cultural Center). Project 2007/170: “Archive Antonio Paoli and
family: their digitization”.

















Twenty years of Ibero-American archival cooperation 25

4.1.

Quantified results

Between the first call for grants in 1999 and the last one approved in 2015, Iberar-
chivos Intergovernmental Committee - ADAI Programme has approved eighteen calls
for grants for 1,252 archival projects in 23 Ibero-American countries, with a capital
investment of 5.069.288€ and $1,671,854 USD.


Approved, finished, in process and projects not done

Dollars Euros
Brazil 267 339 530 551
Colombia 278 264 485 148
Mexico 248 264 470 052
Costa Rica 218 400 497 056
Cuba 224 764 433 632
Chile 99 500 439 186
Uruguay 18 000 479 853
Peru 113 000 267 005
Argentina 35 000 312 757
Puerto Rico 0 347 575
Dominican Republic 6 703 268 309
Panama 4 000 193 030
El Salvador 19 000 103 473
Portugal 0 115 626
Bolivia 60 500 4 166
Ecuador 5 000 55 214
Guatemala 28 000 5 000
Paraguay 0 23 530
Nicaragua 23 120 0
Spain 0 22 000
Philippines 0 16 125
Venezuela 12 000 0
Honduras 11 000 0
TOTAL 1 671 854 5 069 288



26 Achievements / Iberarchivos-ADAI Programme

Iberarchivos
A ssigned grants by country and calls for grants between
1999 - 2015




















17% 12% 11% 8%


Cuba Costa Rica Colombia Uruguay


8% 7% 7% 7%


Mexico Brazil Chile Peru

5% 4% 3% 2%
Puerto Rico Argentina Dominican Republic El Salvador
% Country - No. projects
Between 0 and 10%
2% 1% 1% 1% Between 10% and 20%
Panama Bolivia Ecuador Portugal

0% 0% 0% 0% TOTAL
Spain Philippines Guatemala Honduras 1252

PROJECTS
0% 0% 0% 2%
Nicaragua Paraguay Venezuela Supranational



Twenty years of Ibero-American archival cooperation 27

Assigned grants by country and calls for grants between 1999 - 2015

1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2005E 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Total

Cuba 6 7 9 13 13 23 18 18 20 28 30 12 8 7 3 215
Costa Rica 4 4 5 6 12 10 12 15 13 10 14 9 10 3 4 4 5 6 146
Colombia 3 7 7 11 13 8 6 10 14 11 10 10 9 4 4 3 4 4 138

Uruguay 2 1 1 12 15 19 9 13 11 8 2 4 2 3 3 105
Mexico 1 5 6 5 9 8 7 5 5 8 8 9 10 4 3 3 5 3 104
Chile 3 8 10 9 5 8 10 10 7 6 3 3 3 3 88
Peru 4 6 7 5 2 1 14 8 18 9 2 3 2 5 86
Brazil 6 5 6 7 6 6 7 6 4 7 5 5 5 1 2 2 3 2 85
Puerto Rico 4 12 10 7 6 14 1 5 3 3 65
Argentina 2 3 1 3 4 12 9 9 2 2 3 3 53
Dominican Republic 1 1 1 1 8 1 6 1 4 4 4 3 35
Panama 1 2 2 4 2 4 2 4 4 25

El Salvador 1 1 1 1 1 5 3 4 3 4 24
Supranational 2 3 1 1 1 1 2 3 2 2 1 1 20
Portugal 3 2 1 2 1 4 3 16
Bolivia 1 3 2 1 5 1 13
Ecuador 1 4 4 9
Guatemala 1 1 1 1 1 1 6
Nicaragua 1 1 1 1 1 5

Paraguay 1 3 4
Philippines 3 3
Honduras 1 2 3
Spain 1 1 2
Venezuela 1 1 2

Total 35 45 49 59 74 73 74 99 108 96 141 99 95 30 47 36 43 49 1252




28 Achievements / Iberarchivos-ADAI Programme

Assigned grants by country and calls for grants between 1999 - 2015

1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2005E 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Total

Cuba 6 7 9 13 13 23 18 18 20 28 30 12 8 7 3 215
Costa Rica 4 4 5 6 12 10 12 15 13 10 14 9 10 3 4 4 5 6 146
Colombia 3 7 7 11 13 8 6 10 14 11 10 10 9 4 4 3 4 4 138

Uruguay 2 1 1 12 15 19 9 13 11 8 2 4 2 3 3 105
Mexico 1 5 6 5 9 8 7 5 5 8 8 9 10 4 3 3 5 3 104
Chile 3 8 10 9 5 8 10 10 7 6 3 3 3 3 88
Peru 4 6 7 5 2 1 14 8 18 9 2 3 2 5 86
Brazil 6 5 6 7 6 6 7 6 4 7 5 5 5 1 2 2 3 2 85
Puerto Rico 4 12 10 7 6 14 1 5 3 3 65
Argentina 2 3 1 3 4 12 9 9 2 2 3 3 53
Dominican Republic 1 1 1 1 8 1 6 1 4 4 4 3 35
Panama 1 2 2 4 2 4 2 4 4 25

El Salvador 1 1 1 1 1 5 3 4 3 4 24
Supranational 2 3 1 1 1 1 2 3 2 2 1 1 20
Portugal 3 2 1 2 1 4 3 16
Bolivia 1 3 2 1 5 1 13
Ecuador 1 4 4 9
Guatemala 1 1 1 1 1 1 6
Nicaragua 1 1 1 1 1 5

Paraguay 1 3 4
Philippines 3 3
Honduras 1 2 3
Spain 1 1 2
Venezuela 1 1 2

Total 35 45 49 59 74 73 74 99 108 96 141 99 95 30 47 36 43 49 1252




Twenty years of Ibero-American archival cooperation 29

As of data from June 2017, we can divide the 1,252 archival projects approved in se-
veral categories depending on its level of execution. We have a first category for the
95 projects actually in process, which are developing the technical work proposed
in their grant request or either their final reports are being revised at the Technical
Unit Secretary’s office. Usually, this category coincides with the approvals of the last
two calls for grants. A second category of the 1,032 projects are those that has alre-
ady been revised by the Technical Unit Secretary’s office and has being certified as
finished, given the accomplishment of the proposed objectives. Finally, 125 projects
in all the years operations, have been declared not done, generally due to external
conditions other than the applicant’s institutions. In this last category, the assigned
grants go back to the multilateral Iberarchivos funds.













































30 Achievements / Iberarchivos-ADAI Programme

Number in process approved Number in process finished Number in process not done

Country number in process Country number in process Country number in process
Dominican Republic 11 Cuba 188 Cuba 21

Costa Rica 9 Costa Rica 131 Colombia 16
Argentina 7 Colombia 115 Brazil 14
Colombia 7 Uruguay 88 Uruguay 13
Mexico 7 Mexico 85 Mexico 12
Panama 7 Chile 79 Argentina 11
Cuba 6 Peru 76 Puerto Rico 9
Chile 5 Brazil 67 Ecuador 8

Peru 5 Puerto Rico 53 Costa Rica 6
Portugal 5 Argentina 35 Peru 5
Brazil 4 Dominican Republic 23 Chile 4
Uruguay 4 El Salvador 20 Supranational 3
Paraguay 4 Panama 18 El Salvador 1
El Salvador 3 Supranational (Brazil) 16 Honduras 1
Philippines 3 Bolivia 11 Dominican Republic 1
Puerto Rico 3 Portugal 11 Total 125
Bolivia 2 Guatemala 6

Supranational (Ecuador) 1 Nicaragua 4
Honduras 1 Spain 2
Nicaragua 1 Venezuela 2
Total 95 Ecuador 1
Honduras 1

Total 1032









Twenty years of Ibero-American archival cooperation 31

This numbers mean that a high level of projects has been accomplished; during the
history of the Programmes, 82.42% of the projects has got to a satisfactory end,
7.58% are actually in progress, and only 9.98% have not been done, which is a good
sign of global fulfilling of the projects objectives and the Programmes efficiency
and efficacy. Iberarchivos has given financial support to 1,032 projects finished with
4.018.882€ and $1,497,859 USD.


Costa Rica
Consejo Nacional para Investigaciones
Científicas y Tecnológicas (National
Council for Scientific and Technological
Research). Project 2005E/050: “Digitization
of the National Council for Scientific and
Technological Research fond”.











































32 Achievements / Iberarchivos-ADAI Programme

Finished projects investment


Country Dollars Euros
Colombia 230 264 389 033

Costa Rica 182 362 431 876
Mexico 208 264 401 213

Cuba 220 769 333 252
Brazil 229 339 323 600

Chile 99 500 373 349
Uruguay 18 000 342 049

Peru 108 000 241 875
Puerto Rico 0 290 191

Argentina 19 000 208 557
Supranational 31 038 160 447

Dominican Republic 6 703 173 831
Panama 4 000 159 900
El Salvador 19 000 76 473

Portugal 0 82 070

Bolivia 52 500 4 166
Guatemala 28 000 5 000
Spain 0 22 000

Nicaragua 19 120 0
Venezuela 12 000 0

Ecuador 5 000 0
Honduras 5 000 0

Total 1 497 859 4 018 882


Twenty years of Ibero-American archival cooperation 33

This global financial support for executed projects reveals not only a good use of the
resources through specific results obtained from projects implementation, but an
important impact at regional level. The benefitted archival projects has taken place
in 232 Ibero-American municipalities and specifically, in 578 different institutions,
reasons for us to emphasize the impact the Programmes has had in the reduction
of territorial inequalities, in the strengthening of institutional capabilities, and de-
finitively the increase in services destined to Ibero-American citizenship in its wider
geographical sense.
Behind these global figures are hidden concrete projects with a great impact on the
archives of the region. About the main themes of these projects, mostly have focu-
sed on creating the necessary conditions for the proper preventive conservation of
documents, through the acquisition of technical equipment, furniture or conserva-
tion units. Likewise, numerous projects have dealt with pest control in tropical cli-
mates or on preservation of materials in digital or microfilm format. Another large
block of projects refers to the tasks of organizing and describing the fonds, through
the creation of printed or database finding aids. Finally, there would be another third
set of projects for training, through the organization of courses, seminars and wor-
kshops of a technical nature.
Of the group of projects, we would like to make special mention of some categories
that have a greater impact on the promotion of access to the archives by the citizens
and on the fundamental role of the archives for the exercise of fundamental rights as
an indispensable basis for development, particularly in the case of the most vulnera-
ble population groups.




















34 Achievements / Iberarchivos-ADAI Programme

Number of benefitted Number of benefitted
institutions municipalities

Country n.º institutions Country n.º municipalities
Cuba 91 Cuba 32

Colombia 75 Colombia 31
Mexico 63 Brazil 22

Uruguay 56 El Salvador 22
Brazil 51 Nicaragua 20

Chile 50 Portugal 20
Costa Rica 42 Chile 18
Peru 34 Argentina 14

Argentina 30 Costa Rica 11
Puerto Rico 25 Puerto Rico 8

Bolivia 12 Dominican Republic 7
Portugal 12 Bolivia 7

Dominican Republic 8 Ecuador 3
Ecuador 5 Venezuela 3

El Salvador 4 Spain 2
Guatemala 4 Mexico 2
Nicaragua 4 Panama 2

Panama 4 Uruguay 2
Honduras 3 Philippines 1

Paraguay 2 Guatemala 1
Spain 1 Honduras 1

Philippines 1 Paraguay 1
Venezuela 1 Peru 1


Twenty years of Ibero-American archival cooperation 35

4.2.

Projects of comprehensive archival processing
The projects that have developed activities related to all phases of archival treat-
ment and that have had an impact on the whole management system of documents
or on the archive of an organization are considered integral projects. These pro-
jects have been implemented in small institutions like parish churches, universities
or small municipalities, such as Suchitoto in El Salvador, Atenas in Costa Rica and
Santander of Quilichao in Colombia. Other Projects had been implemented in bigger
institutions like, for example, Panama’s Legislative Congress, Costa Rica’s Republic
Attorney General and some of Peru’s Regional Archives, Saint Ignatius of Loyola Co-
llege or Biscayans in Mexico.











































36 Achievements / Iberarchivos-ADAI Programme

El Salvador
Alcaldía Municipal de Suchitoto. El Salvador (Municipal City Hall of Suchitoto). Project 2010/142:”Document organization and
administrative archive intervention of Archivo Municipal de Suchitoto” (2nd phase).


















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4.3.

Projects that support the non-discriminatory practice
among disadvantaged population
Parallel to the activity areas described before, Iberarchivos - ADAI Programme has
been since its beginning very sensitive regarding projects on access and preservation
of the most vulnerable groups and/or with bigger needs of protection in the exercise
of civil rights. The Projects of Indigenous communities and Afro-descendants, human
rights violations during repressive regimes and armed conflicts, migratory move-
ments and gender issues have been priority to the Programmes up to today.















































38 Achievements / Iberarchivos-ADAI Programme

Colombia
Asociación de Familiares de Víctimas de Trujillo (AFAVIT) (Association of Relatives of Victims of Trujillo). Project 2012/143:
“Recovery of the collective memory. Valle del Cauca. In search of truth, justice and mending to the armed conflict victims in
Colombia.” (3rd phase).























Twenty years of Ibero-American archival cooperation 39

4.3.1.

Multicultural Perspective Projects
Regarding archives and documentary heritage Projects of Indigenous communities
and Afro-descendants, we can mention some examples of the ones developed by the
Corporación Nacional de Desarrollo Indígena (National Cooperation of Indigenous
Development) in Chile and or Mexico by the Comisión Nacional para el Desarrollo
de los Pueblos Indígenas (National Commission for the Development of Indigenous
Towns). Other interesting initiatives were developed in Colombia, like the recovery
of oral registries of the threatened dialects (National Archive), the creation of the
historic archive for the indigenous communities project in the Colombian Amazon, or
the conservation of the historic memory of indigenous communities and Afro-des-
cendants victims of armed conflicts in Colombian Choco Pastoral Social Diócesis de
Quibdó (Pastoral Social Diocese of Quibdo).
Projects on history of slavery has developed in Cuba: Archivo Histórico Provincial de
Granma (Granma Historical Provincial Archive); Colombia: Universidad Nacional de
Colombia (National University of Colombia); Panama: Archivo Nacional de Panamá
(Panama National Archive); and Brasil: Archivo del Estado de Sao Paulo (Sao Paulo
State Archive).





























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Colombia
Pastoral Social Diócesis de Quibdó (Pastoral Social Diocese of Quibdo). Project 2010/106: “Preservation of Indigenous
communities historic memory and Afro-descendants victims of armed conflict in Colombian Choco.” (1st phase).

















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4.3.2.

Gender Perspective Projects
We can quote various projects about women history and gender perspective:

• Fundación Plenario de Mujeres de Uruguay (Uruguay Women Plenary Foundation).

• Archivo de la Violencia Feminicida: por los derechos humanos de las niñas y las mu-
jeres en México, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Feminicide Violence
Archive: For Girls and Women Human Rights in Mexico, National Autonomous Uni-
versity of Mexico).
• Catálogo de Fuentes Documentales sobre la Mujer Dominicana Siglos XVII-XVIII
(Dominican Women Documents Catalog XVII-XVIII Centuries), “Archivo General de la
Nación de la República Dominicana” (Dominican Republic National Archive).

• And the documents from the Federación Femenina Brasileña para el Progreso (Fe-
male Brazilian Federation for Progress) and San Tiago Dantas, developed by the
Arquivo Nacional de Brazil (Brazil National Archive).



































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Dominican Republic
Archivo General de la Nación (National Archive). Project 2013/099: “Catalog of the Dominican Woman Documents.
XVII-XVIII Centuries.”












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4.3.3.
Human Rights Projects

From the beginning the impetus on preservation and access to the archives that ca-
rry the evidence of the violations of the human rights during the repressive regimes
and armed conflicts in Ibero-American countries has been a priority line of action.
Some of the institutions benefitted are:

Argentina: Asociación Civil Memoria Abierta (Open Memory Civil Association), Acción Coor-
dinadora de Organizaciones de Derechos Humanos (Human Rights Coordinated Action
Organizations), Centro de Documentación y Archivo Comisión Provincial por la Memoria de
la Provincia de Buenos Aires (Documentation Center and Provincial Commission Archive for
the Buenos Aires Province Memory), Archivo Nacional de la Memoria de Argentina (National
Archive for Argentina Memory), Archivo Provincial de la Memoria (The Memory Provincial
Archive), Asociación Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo (Plaza de Mayo Grandmothers Association),
Asociación de Ex-Detenidos Desaparecidos (Missing Ex-arrested Association) and Movi-
miento Ecuménico por los Derechos Humanos (Ecumenical Movement for Human Rights).
Brazil: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo/CEDIC. Fundaçao São Paulo.
(Catholic Pontifical University of Saint Paul/CEDIC. Saint Paul Foundation).

Chile: Fundación de Documentación y Archivo de la Vicaría de la Solidaridad de Chile
(Document Foundation and Solidarity Chilean Vicarage Archives), Fundación de Ayu-
da Social de las Iglesias Cristianas (Social Help of Christian Churches Foundation),
Corporación de Promoción y Defensa de los Derechos del Pueblo CODEPU (Advan-
cement and Defense of the City’s Rights Corporation CODEPU), Corporación Agru-
pación de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos (Family of the Missing Arrested
Group Corporation) y Corporación Casa de la Memoria de Organismos de Derechos
Humanos (Corporation house of the memory of organisms of human rights).
Colombia: Archiveros sin Fronteras (Archivists Without Borders) y Asociación de
familias de las víctimas de los hechos violentos de Trujillo AFAVIT (Trujillo’s Violent
Facts Victims Family Association AFAVIT).
Dominican Republic: Archivo General de la Nación (National Archives).

Uruguay: Ministerio de Educación y Cultura (Education and Culture Department), Madres
y familiares de uruguayos detenidos y desaparecidos (Arrested and missing Uruguayan
Mothers) y Servicio Paz y Justicia de Uruguay (Peace and Justice Service of Uruguay).

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Argentina
Archivo Provincial de la Memoria (The Memory
Provincial Archive). Project 2009/008:
“Rescued memories. Organization, description,
conservation and dissemination of the
documents guarded at APM.”
























Chile
Fundación de Documentación y Archivo de
la Vicaría de la Solidaridad (Documentation
and Archive Foundation of the Vicariate of
Solidarity). Project 2011/026: “Digitization and
appraisal of the most valuable documents
from the Archive of the Vicariate of Solidarity.”
(2nd phase).
























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